For every action taken to maintain a piece of equipment, a Failure Mode—or cause of failure—is managed. That is why a Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is an essential part of physical asset management. When done properly, an FMEA helps organizations: 1) Define equipment goals, 2) Identify what could cause Reliability to suffer, and…
With more than 35 years of experience helping educate customers on the finer points of asset condition monitoring and vibration analysis, including 15 years as a Prüftechnik engineer, Colin Pickett has developed an authoritative list of best practices. Now a full-time consultant and trainer, Pickett shared his depth of knowledge at a November 2020 Fluke…
Here’s a common scenario: Your maintenance team already uses thermography to inspect critical assets, either via an in-house person trained to use an infrared camera or via a service. Inspections are performed on a regular basis and when a change in asset operating temperature is detected compared to the previous inspection, a flag goes up…
Just like every facility is different, every maintenance operations team faces different challenges in reaching their next equipment reliability goal. One obstacle in particular is more common these days, however. With the current pressures facing plant operations, many teams would like to start using digitalized condition monitoring or connected sensors on the Industrial Internet of…
Learn how CleanMaint helps in-house cleaning crews embrace the digital age to deliver a higher standard of sanitization. In the current and post-COVID-19 world, this cloud-based application from the makers of eMaint upgrades planning and scheduling to handle the more rigorous demands for cleaning requests, resources, and supplies. Users can map work orders to physical…
An infinite number of causes can lead to lost production and unplanned downtime. But some have common physical roots and underlying latent roots related to our reliability issues. Presenter Shon Isenhour, founding partner of Eruditio, has reviewed or participated in thousands of root cause analyses. In this webinar, he discusses cases with more obvious roots…
With COVID-19 causing considerable uncertainty, many reliability and maintenance professionals are concerned about how to meet production goals. For football fans, there’s also some anxiety—what’s in store for America’s favorite fall pastime? Maybe there’s something we can learn from considering production and football goals at the same time. In this webinar, Life Cycle Institute educator…
Due to the extraordinary times, companies must consider inventory management from a risk perspective more than ever as the current situation severely stresses the supply chain. In this webinar, you’ll learn about maintenance strategies that maximize the equipment uptime and reduce the need for emergency parts replacement during and after a pandemic. The webinar also…
If your goal is to improve the communications between your plant management ─ including your senior executives and board of directors ─ and your operations teams, a six-year-old industry blueprint known as the ISO 55000 Asset Management standard can serve as your guideline. This certification was launched in 2014, with the purpose of setting expectations…
Board directors are asset managers too. In this webinar, Dr. Monique Beedles, an experienced company director, discusses the key role that a board of directors plays in achieving the aims of asset management and how you can improve your communication with the board. Dr. Monique Beedles, Ph.D., Author of “Asset Management for Directors” Dr….